Comparing color wheels, Old & New, CMYK/RGB

THE OLD COLORWHEEL
Yellow, Red and Blue Primary Colors

This is a color wheel without transparent
primaries. It is the one currently taught today with Yellow, Red and Blue
as the primary colors (wrong). This is the Mayer, Runge, Cheverul, Itten color wheel and it is not artist friendly.

The oppositions
on this color wheel only make hues of brown, instead of making neutral dark
grays and blacks.

That color wheel is taught to most
people today (School Standards for all States except N.Y.). This twelve
hue color circle was developed by, Tobios Mayer in 1775, Otto Runge in 1809,
Chevreul in 1839, and Johannes Itten.

Chevreul, 1839, Chevreul made a
twelve color wheel, Yellow, Red, and Blue again, wrong complements, wrong
after images, Yellow is not opposite purple, Ultramarine Blue is not opposite Orange and Red is not the complement of Green. His complements in "Simultaneous Contrast of Color" made mud. He never completed his solid model.

Albert Munsell, 1905. He made a five color wheel with no triad. The principle colors he did have were, red, yellow, green, blue, and purple. No Magenta or cyan unless you consider purple as the magenta and put cyan between green and blue. In a 5, 8 or 10 color wheel there is no triad possible.
Next he darkened the colors with Black, mixed them with Gray, and tinted them with White, and numbered them all.
This is still taught today. An eight or five or ten color wheel will not work.
It has to be a 3, 6, 12 or 36 color wheel to have a triad and correct opposite secondaries.
In the element color wheel, colors do not darken with black like the RGB color wheel and the Munsell color wheel.

1916, The last color wheel (square)
of college record was by Church-Ostwald. It has Yellow, Red, Sea Green and
Ult. Blue at the corners. It made way for the new coal-tar colors, all pigments
were replaced by their top-tone matching colors. Naples Yellow, Rubin's favorite,
artists' favorite for two thousand years, was replaced by a mixture of Zinc
and Ocher. Pigments were moving from the Iron Age to the Oil Age.

Ostwald had no regard for opacity, or raw pigment content, only the final dried chip color was important.

This represents the Red Yellow Blue (RYB) color and painting theory (wrong) that is still accepted today.

Actually it doesn't work any better
than the ROYGBIV color theory without transparent magenta or transparent cyan that was popular when I went to school (1950).

Young artists are having trouble, they are being taught a system that doesn't work.

On the old Red Yellow Blue color wheel a Red tomato would use Green and darken the Red to Brown.

None of the oppositions on that color wheel will mix into any color but a medium brown because:

This color wheel also matches the CMYK color wheel divisions of colors, but not in the way RGB & CMYK colors get darker by adding black ink. The natural painting artist needs the correct dark color ranges made with opposition pigments to make believable shadows..

REAL COLOR WHEEL
toward color theory, Don Jusko.

Each color opposition on the RCW mixes to a dark neutral that tints a neutral gray.

It should be your colorwheel !

The Old RYB has a Red/Green opposition that should be Magenta/Green instead. On that Red, Yellow and Blue color wheel, a red tomato would use green to make a shadow on the tomato making Brown. Ugg..

No wonder today's young artists are having trouble, they are being taught a system that doesn't work. On the RCW color wheel a Red tomato would use Cyan to darken the Red into natural
shadow color.

Only on this Real Color Wheel are yellow and brown in the same color column path, like the
yellow elements.

1. All pigment colors are located on the RCW.2. All color oppositions are correct.

3. All colored hexadecimal codes are given for the web page creator. All CMYK colors are RGB colors in gamut.

Transparent Yellow has become important, I made a new palette using three different concentrations of the same color. All three will lighten to the same bright yellow. Now the pigment will last a lot longer.